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#White-Supremacy

Events indexed under #White-Supremacy — 20 entries in the record.

20 events From Mar 26, 1790 To Jun 17, 2015 Open in filter view →
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1790 · 1 event1863 · 1 event1865 · 1 event1873 · 1 event1874 · 3 events1876 · 2 events1883 · 1 event1898 · 1 event1901 · 1 event1915 · 2 events1923 · 1 event1925 · 2 events1956 · 1 event1974 · 1 event2015 · 1 event17902015
DateEventLanesStatus
2015-06-17White Supremacist Dylann Roof Murders Nine Black Worshippers at Historic Charleston Church - Confederate Flag Controversy Exposes South Carolina's Institutional Racism
Dylann Roof · Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church · Clementa C. Pinckney · Nikki Haley · +1
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1974-01-01Richard Butler Establishes Aryan Nations Compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho
Richard Girnt Butler · Aryan Nations · Church of Jesus Christ Christian · Christian Posse Comitatus · +2
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1956-01-01White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination
White Citizens' Councils · Tom P. Brady · Ross Barnett · Allen C. Thompson · +1
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1925-11-14D.C. Stephenson Convicted of Murder Exposing Klan Leadership Corruption
D.C. Stephenson · Madge Oberholtzer · Indiana Ku Klux Klan · Ed Jackson
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1925-08-08KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence
Ku Klux Klan · Hiram Evans · D.C. Klan · State Governments
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1923-09-01Ku Klux Klan Seizes Control of Indiana State Government
D.C. Stephenson · Ed Jackson · Indiana Republican Party · Ku Klux Klan
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1915-11-25KKK Revived at Stone Mountain Cross Burning: Simmons Coordinates with Birth of a Nation Premiere
William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan · D.W. Griffith
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1915-02-08Birth of a Nation Premieres in Los Angeles: Groundbreaking Film Glorifies KKK, Depicts Black Americans as Evil
D.W. Griffith · Woodrow Wilson · William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan
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1901-05-21Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement
John Knox · Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party · Black Belt Planters
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1898-11-10Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens
Alfred Moore Waddell · Furnifold Simmons · Red Shirts · Wilmington Black Community · +1
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1883-10-15Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow
U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · John Marshall Harlan
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1876-07-08Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
Red Shirts · Benjamin Tillman · Wade Hampton III · Matthew Butler · +1
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1876-03-27United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · Colfax Massacre Perpetrators
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1874-12-07Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff
White League · Peter Crosby · Andrew J. Gilmer · Ulysses S. Grant
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1874-09-14Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government
White League · James Longstreet · William Pitt Kellogg · Ulysses S. Grant · +1
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1874-08-30Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government
White League · Dick Coleman · Thomas Floyd · Marshall Twitchell · +1
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1873-04-13Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government
White Supremacist Militia · Ku Klux Klan · Knights of White Camellia · Grant Parish Black Militia
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1865-12-24Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy
Nathan Bedford Forrest · Confederate Veterans · Calvin E. Jones · John B. Kennedy · +4
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1863-01-01Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition
Abraham Lincoln · Northern Democrats · Copperheads · Frederick Douglass · +1
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1790-03-26Naturalization Act Restricts Citizenship to Free White Persons Creating Racial Caste System
First Congress · George Washington
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